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ABNT20 KNHC 051148

TWOAT



Tropical Weather Outlook

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL

800 AM EDT Wed Sep 5 2018



For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:



The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane

Florence, located over the east-central tropical Atlantic Ocean,

and on recently downgraded Tropical Depression Gordon, located over

central Mississippi.



Shower activity associated with a broad area of low pressure

centered a couple of hundred miles south-southwest of the Cabo Verde

Islands has become better organized since yesterday. Environmental

conditions are forecast to be conducive for additional development,

and a tropical depression is expected to form by the end of the week

while the system moves west-northwestward across the tropical

Atlantic Ocean.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent.

* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.



A tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa

in a few days. Some development of the system is possible over the

weekend while the wave moves westward over the far eastern

tropical Atlantic Ocean.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.

* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent.



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Forecaster Beven






Source: Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook


David Cottle

UBB Owner & Administrator